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IT is the heart of every business. Business records, plans, employee records and so much more is handled via IT. Even the smallest companies rely on computing to handle all the important aspects of their business.
No matter how convenient IT support is, it still has a stranglehold on the budget. Purchasing and repairing servers and hard drives are increasingly expensive, which is problematic for small businesses.
Throughout our ten years of working with equipment manufacturers to connect, collect, and integrate operational data with enterprise systems, we’ve seen many trends impacting industrial IoT project success. The world has finally moved beyond most of the technological limitations for building innovative solutions. All the necessary tools exist to create connected product systems that perform as expected. They work. Now there’s a new trend, and it’s not a good one. We’re seeing business teams at equipment manufacturers telling engineering managers and IT leaders to evaluate and choose an IoT platform for the company. Run an online demo. Read API documentation. Build a proof of concept. Compare prices. Most of these projects never see the commercial light of day. They get stuck. Why? They get stuck because this approach to digital transformation is completely backward.
We’ve said technology isn’t the problem. Here’s the reality. The right technology for your system is available today. When used correctly by experienced teams, it will produce your desired outcomes. This is a well-charted territory. You can have remote monitoring with predictive maintenance and integrate machine data with your business workflows. These are solved challenges.
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Privacy has overtaken security as a top concern for many organizations. For IT professionals, the difference between privacy and security may not be apparent. Protecting sensitive data from the prying eyes of malicious users seems to be an obvious goal of application security. But privacy is more than just protecting sensitive data. Privacy is also the users’ ability to keep their data private, no matter if the data is considered sensitive or not. Giving users the ability to control who has permission to see their data and who does not have permission is an important goal of privacy.
Many IT professionals today are unaware of exactly how to ensure users’ data is kept private, or even how to determine if the users’ privacy has been violated. Relying on a member of the IT team to “know it when they see it” is not a scalable way to ensure their users’ privacy. Often, IT staff are not subject matter experts concerning the data their organization is collecting. If the sensitivity of the data is not documented and privacy standards have not been explained to everyone who works with the data, it creates an opportunity for incorrect assumptions to be made concerning what data needs to be protected, when it needs to be protected, and where it needs to be protected.
Every organization strives to be high-performing, and in today’s business landscape, it’s a goal that depends on digital transformation. The reality of the matter is that various parts of businesses grow and adapt their IT savviness at different times and at varying speeds. But in the quest to move faster, adapt more quickly and embrace being software-defined for success, what does digital transformation actually look like when IT is pulled in multiple directions?
In an ideal world, innovation calls for agility and speed; however, most enterprise organizations are cursed – or blessed – with legacy systems that still have a shelf life and need to operate alongside the introduction of other more modern components. Developers working in established sectors like banking or telecoms, for example, understand this situation well, being in industries that are embracing mobile banking and connected cars, yet are also still dealing with legacy systems of record. These systems have little interoperability, can be written in what’s tantamount to a foreign language for developers today and can be unpredictable due to their age.
In my previous blog, I discussed the importance of open standards while choosing a tech stack while developing your enterprise application. But the idea of open standards for IT is still a bit new to many people. So, here, I discuss how open standards evolved and why they are so important now.
“Open standards for information technology” seems to be a new term that everyone is talking about recently. But, as a matter of fact, open standards have been here for a long time. The socket and the plug that you use for charging your electronic devices, USB cables that fit perfectly into the given slots, or the WiFi signals that your devices connect to — all of these adhere to open standards. Standards are everywhere, whether you acknowledge them or not.
Thanks to recent advances in cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to reinvent the IT landscape and provide us with a seamlessly connected digital experience. As business operations and consumer attitudes begin to shift, IT professionals across every sector are familiarizing themselves with this new technology in order to future-proof their careers.
Of course, as appetites for interconnected devices rise, so will job opportunities within the space. Surveys in recent years report 63% of C-suite executives are planning to increase their reliance on IoT technology, and it’s estimated that there will be over 75 billion connected devices by 2025. IoT development in the industrial sector alone is forecasted to add over $14 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
I'm relatively new to python, and I'm trying to create a pokemon battle.
This error has come up, I've looked up solutions but it hasn't helped me as I can't understand it properly.
Please help, I'd like to learn especially since I'm planning on taking IT and computer science for GCSEs.
Thank you in advance.
How hard is it to digitally transform an enterprise? A lot harder than you might imagine. That’s the message delivered by a recent survey, the “MuleSoft Connectivity Benchmark Report 2018.” MuleSoft surveyed 650 IT decision makers around the world and found how important they believe digital transformation is. The report also highlights how difficult it has been for them to digitally transform their enterprises and far they are from achieving their goals.
The report starts out warning, “To put it bluntly, those organizations that fail to digitally transform will start to lose revenue, and fast…But for many organizations, there are still huge barriers to digital transformation like integration, lack of resources, and misalignment between IT and the rest of the business.”
You are using Docker for development and testing purposes but did not yet take the step to use it in production? Then read on, because in this blog post we will take a look at how you can ensure that you run your Docker containers in a secure way.
The default Docker installation does not provide us enough security for usage in production. Neither are the numerous examples of Dockerfiles you can find on the web. Even the Dockerfiles in some of our previous blog posts are not production ready. How do we know what to do in order to run our Docker container in a secure way? This brings us to the Center of Internet Security (CIS). The CIS provides best practices for securing IT systems and data against attacks. These best practices are identified and verified by a community of experienced IT professionals. In our case, we will take a look at the CIS Benchmarks page. Here we find a lot of benchmarks for operating systems, devices and software. Within this list, the CIS Benchmark for Docker Community Edition 1.1.0 is available. It is freely downloadable, but you do need to provide your contact details and after that, a download link is sent to your email address. This will also give you access to the other CIS benchmarks.
To start I want to make it clear I have no experiance with office 365 or the associated exhange stuff, and I would never personally recomend such a package to my clients, hence why I am totally in the dark about this.
I have taken on the management of IT for a small buiness and have been tasked with migrating away from office 365 software to get costs down.
There were 15 computers and each had an email address and access to the microsoft 365 software suite. So far I have changed all the accounts onto an "exchange only" plan, removed office 365 from all machines, and migrated to stand alone versions of MS office. Which is great, saving them lots of money on subscriptions already.
The exchange only licences have come via a reseller purchased by the previous IT technician. It appears the company has been paying the technician and he has been purchacing them from the reseller.
There has been some disputes between the company and the technician and he has threatened to hit the kill switch on the 365 licenses and seriously throw a spanner into the works. So we want to migrate away from the reseller and regain full control of the licenses (on the down-low if at all possible.)
So basically my question is; can we descreetly remove our relationship with the reseller on the office 365 admin account from our end, while either maintaining the existing licenses, or purchase new licenses from MS directly without loosing any of the configuration or data currently held in the exchange mailboxes!
It is my understanding the reseller relationship can be deleted in partner relationships, only it doesnt give me an option to delete. Also I believe if I could delete it, it would then take all the licenses with it and we would loose the mailboxes?
Should I perhaps purchase all the new licenses and then assign them to each user before breaking the reseller relationship? and is it possible to switch these licenses without losing the mailboxes? It is my understanding that if a user is reverted to unlicensed then the mailbox gets removed?
Any advice will be greatly appricated.
Working in the technology field for the last 20+ years, I have always been passionate about automation and I am so happy finally see wide-scale adoption across all industries. New automation products and services now dominate the marketplace. IT leaders are echoing phrases like DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and Delivery, etc. in their boardrooms.
In this blog, I will try to make sense of all this and to add some perspective in the context of DevOps. In addition, in future blogs, I will drill down into the automation aspects of DevOps.
As an overall solution for the IT industry, DevOps brought about the freest collaboration among various teams creating an end-to-end connection across the process chain. It enabled two entirely-different teams — Development and Operations – to work as a single unit for a productive output that is qualitative and faster than before.
DevOps has evolved a lot and has become the main focus in shaping the world of software for the last few years. Professionals say that DevOps is going to be the mainstream and its popularity is going to reach its peak point in 2019.
We live in an era where cyberattacks come part and parcel with doing business. Companies are routinely hit with attacks big and small, and their customers are feeling the impact as well. While your company may not have suffered a major security attack yet, that doesn’t mean it won’t. Cyberattacks have never been more prevalent or dangerous — and they could end up costing your company millions of dollars and potentially scores of customers.
These trends are making the IT departments that are tasked with endpoint defense, investigation, and remediation filled with dread, and they are looking for ways to get ahead of the problem. Based on conversations I’ve had with customers and partners over the past several months as well as talks taking place at a slew of industry events, here are some of the things I’ve noticed about the state of enterprise security today — the good, the bad, and the ugly.